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Jmetal, or narrow 4frames covered with any suitable fabric.

1 s i T. W. M. CASTLE AND J. B. CONNER, OFr ADRIANCE, INDIANA.V

'Lente Patent Nataosa, dated Juntas, .1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN -IItINTING-PESS FRISKETS.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERNE VBe it known that we, T. W. CASTLE and B.CONNER, of Adriance, inthe county of Newton, and State of Indiana, have invented a new and improved Frisket; and'we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, refer-` ence being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of. this specification.

This invention relates to a new and improved frisket forprinting-presses; and it consists in a novel construction andapplication ofv the former to thev tympan of a press, as hereinafter fully shown and described, whereby the frisket is operated, opened,'and closed automatically, by the raising and lowering of'tlie tympan.

In the accompanying sheet ofA drawingsv Figure 1 is a front or face view lof our improvement, lthe'frisket-beng in a. `raised position..v

s Figure 2, a longitudinal vertical section of thesame, the frisket-being in a downward position. a: az, fig.l 1, is the line of section. v I

Figure 3, a longitudinal section of iig. 1, taken' in the line yy.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. VV

A represents a tympan of a printing-press, which is connectedatone end,4as usual, to the bed B by hinges, a a. C C are two shafts attached to the inner 'or face side 4of thetympan, or near each .side or edge of the same, said shafts -being allowed to turnffree'ly in bearings, 6, secured to the front and inner ends of the tympan, (see iigs. 1'and2.) 'i

' `'.lhe frisket is composed of two parts, D D, attached oneito each shaft, C, and they are narrow strips of sheet We do notconne ourselves tofany. particular construction, nor to any particular material,'iu making the frisket.

0n each shaft, C, near its` inner cud, is'placed a spiral spring,E,vand thesesprlugs have a tendency teV 4keep the outerlends'cf the parts D D'of the frisket in contact'with-the Ainner surface of the tympan, and on the inner endof eachs'haft, C', there is keyed a pulley or halfpulley, F, to which cords, a c, are attached, the outer ends of said cords being securedto the outer ends'cf two'le'vtfrs, G G, which havel their fulcra, d d, attached to the innerend of `Vthe tympan.' A

To the rear end of the-bed B there areattached' twoupright curved prongs, e c, which are located at such -poiuts that when the tympan A is raised andthrown atriieI back of a vertical position, the levers G G will Vcome in contact. with s aid prongs, and bejactn'ateld so vas to throw outward'fthe two parts D'D, comprising the frisket, so that a printed vsheet may be-taken therefrom `and a blank sheet inserted .in its place, the blank 4sheet being grasped and held thetwo parts DD of the frisket as soon as the tympan is turned upto a vertical position, whichl relievesthelevers G-Gffrm-the prongs e e, and admits of the springs E E throwing the twoparts D D of the frisket inward, soins' to 'grasp the blank sheet'.

By this very s implevarrang'ement the :f risket is operated' automatically by the raisingland lowering ofthe tympan, and a printing-press, therefore, may be manipulated with much. greater facility and expedition thanA hitherto.

4 We claim as new, andl desire 4to secure by Letters Patent- Constructing the frisket of the partsD Dattached to the tympan A, substantially asfshown, inA combina- `,tion with-the pulleys or semi-pulleys F, springs E, levers G G, and the-prongs e` e,all' arranged andappliedtcV operate in the manner substantiallyasfand for-thepur'pose set forth.

' fr. w. M. CASTLE,

.J. B. CONNER.;

lWitnesses:

OscAR Pumps, Devin Gonrz. 

